Title Mexicans in Alaska : an ethnography of mobility, place, and transnational life / Sara V. Komarnisky

Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018] ©2018

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Description 1 online resource Series Anthropology of contemporary North America Anthropology of contemporary North America. Contents Introduction: yes, there are Mexicans in Alaska -- Tracing Mexican Alaska -- The annual migration of the traveling swallows: shared experiences of mobility across North America -- "My grandfather worked here": three generations of the Bravo family in Alaska and Michoacán -- "You have to get used to it": living the North American dream -- The stuff of transnational life: suitcases full of mole, t-shirts, roosters, and other things that move -- "It freezes the people together": producing a Mexican Alaska -- Conclusion: freedom to move Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 14, 2018) Subject Mexicans -- Alaska -- History Mexican Americans -- Alaska -- History Mexicans -- Alaska -- Social conditions Mexican Americans -- Alaska -- Social conditions Foreign workers, Mexican -- Alaska -- History Foreign workers, Mexican -- Alaska -- Social conditions Migrant labor -- Alaska -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Hispanic American Studies. Foreign workers, Mexican Foreign workers, Mexican -- Social conditions Mexican Americans Mexican Americans -- Social conditions Mexicans Mexicans -- Social conditions Migrant labor Alaska Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781496206480 1496206487

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